March 9th Meeting- Rockscaping@ Zypher Aquatics

[Pennies2Cents]

MAAST ROCKSCAPING MEETING:

Date: March 9, 2014

Location:

Zypher Aquatics Store Front
7500 Eckhert Rd Ste. 310
San Antonio, Texas 78240

Hosted By Ben Scutterborn & John Firewater

Time: 1:30 to 3:30pm

Topic: It is an educational meeting to discuss using mortar and various methods to build your scape.

[Reef Swimmer]

+1

[Southern Flame]

If we are still in this house or have purchased one by that date we can have it at my house :)
Ill post the addy when I'm positive where I'll be at lol


90 gal reef <3 250 build<3

[Scutterborn]

John is willing to help me host this meeting. He and I did this meeting last year and we had a great time.


- Ben -

[BattleAthletics]

Rockscaping

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[Flyride95]

Man I wish this was a week sooner I'm setting up my 180 on Wednesday lol.

[BattleAthletics]

Rockscaping?

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[Reef Swimmer]

Yep aqua scaping your tank like we all do.

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[BattleAthletics]

Where would everyone meet? I understand a frag swap but a meeting for rock scape? Not tryna bash just new here.

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[FireWater]

It is an educational meeting to discuss using mortar and various methods to build your scape.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

John is willing to help me host this meeting. He and I did this meeting last year and we had a great time.


- Ben -


This is awesome news.

[BattleAthletics]

How was the turnout last year? Any pictures?

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[Scutterborn]

We didn't take any pictures that I recall.

We had a dozen or so members show up.


-Ben-

[FireWater]

We talked a lot about ways to find different ideas to complete a rock scape. I'm a proponent of using mortar to set up natural dry rock so we will be covering that aspect.

[BattleAthletics]

Cool, I'm actually doing my rockscape now, I don't know if I'll get it done today but I will try.

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[Dean]

Definitely interested. Sunday's are hit or miss though.

[FireWater]

I'm always available for talks. Just hit me up. I'm no specialist in the matter, but I enjoy it.

I thought about trying to see if we could do a Saturday since so many seem to have issues with Sundays. Unfortunately I am teaching on Saturday the 8th so Sunday is the best day for me.

[cowboy572]

Let me check my camera and files at home. I might have some pics I can post later today when I get home.

[Pennies2Cents]

I will take pix and post them when the time comes. :)

[Reef Swimmer]

satedays are off for me unless its after 3

[BBQHILLBILLY]

march 9 is a sunday

[BattleAthletics]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/02/25/uhy3uje9.jpg

Doing my rockscape now, this is harder than I thought. Rock doesn't always break up the way you want it.

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[FireWater]

You wanna wait for the meeting? I can show you how to use mortar to seamlessly join all that together.

[Reef Swimmer]

Ah ok.

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[Sherri]

Reef Swimmer...you'll be glad you did..lol - the one last year was very interesting...

[Scutterborn]

Reef Swimmer...you'll be glad you did..lol - the one last year was very interesting...

Interesting = hilarious

😄


- Ben -

[cowboy572]

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I found them.

[cowboy572]

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The materials used to for the rock scaping meeting.

[FireWater]

You see that good looking, intelligent guy?

And Ben also.

[cowboy572]

I was tempted to post the "The Unsafe Way To Drill a Hole in Live Rock" but I'll save that one for another day.

[FireWater]

That was Ben's fault.

[alton]

You see that good looking, intelligent guy?

And Ben also.

Did Cory take those pictures? He has a way with making things look better than they actually look? Baa Haa

[Zephyr Aquatics]

If there is anything I can please let me know. I have a small tub of marco mortar if we wanna make a comparison between biy and marco stuff

[ramsey]

I learned a lot last year when you guys did this. I used marco mortar and have on two builds now. Both turned out great. I'm gonna try and make it to the meeting. How about a free frag raffle too? I have a couple of small SPS frags I can donate.

[Pennies2Cents]

I learned a lot last year when you guys did this. I used marco mortar and have on two builds now. Both turned out great. I'm gonna try and make it to the meeting. How about a free frag raffle too? I have a couple of small SPS frags I can donate.

Wow And door prizes too!!! ;-)

[BattleAthletics]

Still no location and time

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[FireWater]

If there is anything I can please let me know. I have a small tub of marco mortar if we wanna make a comparison between biy and marco stuff

What do you mean a comparison? Of the mortar or of rock. The mortar as far as I know is all the same and each company repackages it and charges a crap load more. The difference comes in when you look at rock. I've seen great differences in BRS vs Marco.

[FireWater]

Still no location and time

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Sorry. I don't have an answer for you. I'm waiting to find out as well so I know where to show up to do the meeting.

[ST3PH3N]

I'll more then likely be there. Specially if my hydroids are still growing.


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[Zephyr Aquatics]

Yeah between the mortars. Ive only used the marco stuff, never the stuff you guys posted pics of. Im rather interested to see that in action!

[BattleAthletics]

Are you going to cover just Aquascape or are you going to be able to cover acid baths, curing live rock, etc etc

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[Scutterborn]

It's the exact same mortar. It's called eMaco R400. It's not usually available in small amounts. In fact, I'm having quite the problem sourcing any for the meeting.


-Ben-

[Zephyr Aquatics]

I have tub i can donate to the meeting and depending on when it is i might even make it! Its just hard as i am a one man operation here at ZA!

[Pennies2Cents]

I have tub i can donate to the meeting and depending on when it is i might even make it! Its just hard as i am a one man operation here at ZA!

Very thoughtful of you. :)

[FireWater]

How about hosting the meeting at the store?

[FireWater]

Also, Ben is correct that the Marco kits are just broke down emaco r400. It is hard to find, but you can buy a 50lb bag for a little bit more than the small kits at Marco.

[FireWater]

Are you going to cover just Aquascape or are you going to be able to cover acid baths, curing live rock, etc etc

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I am not astute on acid baths so I will not be showing that. I can cover curing though.

[ramsey]

I am not astute on acid baths so I will not be showing that. I can cover curing though.

I've done the acid bath method a couple of times and could talk about it.

[Pennies2Cents]

Hi Everyone. I updated the OP.. :)

MAAST ROCKSCAPING MEETING:

Date: March 9, 2014

Location:

Zypher Aquatics Store Front
7500 Eckhert Rd Ste. 310
San Antonio, Texas 78240

Hosted By Ben Scutterborn & John Firewater

Time: 1:30 to 3:30pm

[StanB]

Just use the rock.

[ST3PH3N]

I'll be there.


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[Pennies2Cents]

BUMP.. :) Meeting is this weekend..

[Pennies2Cents]

:) TTT

[sean.f]

I will be there.

[Pennies2Cents]

Bumping again. :) Meeting this Sunday... See yall there.

[rocketeer]

I would be happy to help spread out the cost of some mortar. I have a project coming up right after the meeting. PM me. Maybe this can be a group buy.

Jack

[FireWater]

Ben said he had a difficult time sourcing the mortar locally. It is available in 50lb sacks. Used to be easily found in SA area at masonry supply stores.

[ramsey]

I thought this meeting was in Schertz. I'd love to go but that's a really long drive for me and I have to work tomorrow afternoon. I won't be able to make this after all. :(

[BBQHILLBILLY]

This should be awesome. Looking forward to this meeting. Ill be there.

[envy]

Ill be there +1

[JVI90GREEF]

I will be there, hope it's not too late to RSVP...

[rocketeer]

Great meeting! Thanks. And thanks for the door prize!

Jack

[BBQHILLBILLY]

Great meeting. Thank you everybody that was there. Thank you Zephyr Aquatics and Firewater for making it happen.

[ST3PH3N]

Good info! Thanks for the frag too!


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[FireWater]

Link for Marco Rock
www.marcorocks.com

For trying for bulk buys you want to look for Emaco R400 and Acryl60.

As always, I'll make myself available for any questions.

[envy]

Thank you FireWater for the presentation and thank you Zepher Aquatics for hosting.

[Pennies2Cents]

Meeting was a great success It was great to see everyone. Thank You Zypher and Thank You Firewater. Could not have done it without you. :)

Pics up soon! See yall at the Frag Swap April 6th.

[cowboy572]

Sorry for the late post, been a little crazy here at the house. Want to thank Eve for the great pictures, Thanks to great equipment. lol.

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[cowboy572]

More pics.....

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[Pennies2Cents]

Thank You Jarrod... But I know there were a few more... lol